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I upgraded to 14.4: root@devpi5:~ # freebsd-version -ku 14.4-RELEASE-p1 14.4-RELEASE-p1 root@devpi5:~ # uname -a FreeBSD devpi5 14.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC arm64 no big changes. - still no fan (other than a brief spin at...

Thanks for taking time to make a how to :)

EMACS = "Eight Megabytes of RAM and Contiguous Swapping"

On VirtualBox 7.2, Ubuntu boots correctly again.

Do you see this (in green)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm

So a lot of people call it "modern" but its popularity rose due to a technical limitation on DOS (i.e MS-DOS), where multi-tasking was so poor, that an all-in-one monolithic program became the norm for student/hobby developers using that platform...

A bunch of printf statements is all you need for debugging.

A *guess* (as drhowarddrfine said, not enough inforamation--which happens, when you're new, you aren't sure what's important). See if whatever is giving you that cut off information either has a square button to push, or if you can drag the...

Need more info. Assuming you installed 15.0-RELEASE? Are you following the Handbook? What GUI are you talking about? What have you actually done? Show us the text. Preferably not images if possible.

But why? What's wrong with that?

Never seen it, actually. Only a special bootpartition that installs back the original system. I usually wipe it for the space. Does the key say something on USB or something else it's connected to? It can also be dedicated wiring apart from the...

The question is, is the "Recovery" key recognized by the system video console keyboard driver/controller in the first place. Many multimedia or dual function keys are not recognized, the "Recovery" key could be among these. misc/kbdscan should...

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It does. Edit: for efi, it does not add, it updates if there is already a FreeBSD loader, it won't write a new file. For a freebsd-boot partition it can put a BIOS loader if you select the -f option. It will take then the root file system as hint...

Try instead running release.sh the source and iso build from the source code directories directly. Skip cloning if there is a 14.4 source tree already: # mkdir /usr/src-14.4 # git clone --branch releng/14.4 https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git...

The best way would be to invoke sed only once, i. e. one script achieves all necessary steps. Care to show us your scripts? And sample inputs. Maybe it is not possible with sed, but another tool could do what you want. Well, if you know the line...

Many laptops have a "recovery key" to either recover from a clean saved state or mark a state as clean. With ZFS, this could easily be done via devd.conf if devd can detect that this key was pressed . It should not be too complicated with UFS...

When it comes to using a debugger: I like being able to set breakpoints directly in the edit buffer as well as the next person. But in practice my debugging needs quickly evolve to the point where I need extensive .gdbinit statements, and that...

Sniff++ was an excellent IDE, but it's gone. IDK, but chances are the company was target of a M&A and the codebase was integrated into another IDE or the product was just renamed. Would be interesting to know if an successor is still availabe s/wh.

After "untethering" the phone did you configure the wifi device according to handbook chapter 7.4. Wireless Networks ? Be advised, the rtw89 driver module on 15.0-RELEASE may work unstable ( driver is still in development). I have a RTL8852AE...

EMACS = "Eight Megabytes of RAM and Contiguous Swapping"

This is close to the issues with IDEs. They assume i.e a specific formatting convention. Most developers work on such as wide variety of codebases, each with their own standards that modifying the autoformat is a full time job. Whats really...

EMACS = "Eight Megabytes of RAM and Contiguous Swapping"

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try. I tried but can't get it to work. I have two files. The frst one I want to reformat, and insert the result after a particular in the second file. eg a contains london new york rome b...

Is this not just a standard pipe: sed -f scr1 a | sed -f scr2 > c sed just uses standard input if no input file is specified. I would ignore ChatGPT (in this case, and more generally...).

There is no utility in the base to add and update boot code specifically (not counting gpart bootcode argument). There is sysutils/loaders-update in ports (created by forums user Emrion by the way), but I haven't used it. It updates bootcode but...

Is this not just a standard pipe: sed -f scr1 a | sed -f scr2 > c sed just uses standard input if no input file is specified. I would ignore ChatGPT (in this case, and more generally...).

It's overrated anyway. Having a cockpit style development environment is pretty useless and doesn't improve anything. Why do 100 program functions need to be immediately available in 1 window? I think you can uninstall the WM too if you're there...

I'm wondering if someone can help me come up with a way of piping the output of one sed script into another... In simple terms I have a list of items which I want to preformat and then insert them into another file at a specific location. I...

I have a directory that is periodically populated with logs like that: 2026-03-18_22-56-00.log 2026-03-19_02-30-00.log 2026-03-22_02-30-00.log 2026-03-25_02-30-00.log 2026-03-25_17-08-16.log I want to compress the files that are older than 7...

Ah... Since March of this year, .tar.gz tarballs are no longer available from the cgit mirror. I have to fetch a .zip from Github: fetch https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/archive/refs/heads/main.zip fetch and unzip are in FreeBSD base...

This is probably one of your better, if not the best, solution. However, this will affect other port builds. Given that FreeBSD 13 retires at the next month upgrading to FreeBSD 14 or 15 would be a better, and in the long run, a more secure...

So what OCI Image do I need? I can't find anything explaining the differences between these: freebsd-runtime freebsd-toolchain freebsd-static freebsd-notoolchain freebsd-dynamic Lets say I need to install a package and run a build as part of a...

What gave you the idea to run that command? It doesn't make very much sense to me, as curl does not usually listen itself on any port. We would use curl -V to show the compilation options: π curl -V curl 8.4.0 (amd64-portbld-freebsd13.2)...

I tried to find a way to see if curl was using the OpenSSL option in my system. I'm might need to move to FreeBSD 15.x sooner than I hoped for. Thanks,

somewhere i have a config to open emails, send and reply and open links in these emails. But i stopped. switched to simpler workflow. That is editor to edit. Command line to compile. Email client for emails. KISS.

OP, I dont see answers to questions we asked you. Sorry giving up. Start with,output of: cat /etc/os-release freebsd-version -kru pciconf -lv cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf kldstat | grep -i nvidia Then we have a look at xorg setup :)

If you want to help people to help you, don't shout, but rather give sensible informations like: - freebsd-version -kru - dmesg - kldstat Of course, you need to disable the launch of sddm. You can select the single-user mode at the beastie menu...

The last gaming PC that I built for my son had a weird stability problem that he considered to be totally random. He would happily be playing a game sometimes for hours, sometimes only minutes and the PC would freeze or crash. I had collected...

Old joke from the 80'ies: "Q: Why is Emacs an OS? A: It manages all resources" Emacs was big in those days and took much RAM & many small workstations started heavy swapping... See, there are even programs running on that OS :) You can even use...

Emacs is an OS on itself. But for coloring/integration/completions. Emacs i fine with your own way of working. Me i use simple command line for compiling, but i'm very oponiated. If emacs is your way go for it. Me, an editors , just to edit...

ok ,each his, me, veovim-qt.

after extensive research on the subject, spanning may years, I have come to the conclusion that all free IDEs suck in their own special way. About the closest I've come to being productive with an IDE was vscode, before they started the AI...

I finally have things working, so for those who have suffered through this so far, here is what was learned and done. If others are having issues with StarLink, this might be of help to them: 1) Concerns about the Intel X700 series Ethernet...

That's what life is all about: Learning lessons.

Learned about Java tracing :D A game wouldn't do OpenGL/DirectX acceleration on Windows with 64-bit Java, but after enabling tracing I found a Can't load this .dll (machine code=0x14c) on a AMD 64-bit platform line and got a surprise it was...

Heh, maybe that's why those mice aren't more popular 😅 That reminded me of a question I had about why spider mounts weren't more popular in games, but didn't think about Arachnophobia

trypophobia-trigger-ass mouse